Megan and Carrie talk with Poppy Mardall, the founder and chair of Poppy’s, about the Dead Good Words campaign around dehumanizing and euphemistic language about death. Calm History podcastWest Virginia University shutting down World LanguagesWVU FinancesJonah KatzSupport the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Felicity Meakins, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Queensland, and Briony Barr, a visual-conceptual-teaching artist and co-founder of the Scale Free Network, about their book Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Territory, why termites are important to Gurundji people, and why they wanted to work on this project. Ken knows how to f Listen on Podurama Support the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at [email protected] Thanks...

Megan and Carrie talk to Erin McCarthy,  Editor-in-Chief of Mental Floss, about her new book (with the Mental Floss team), Mental Floss Curious Compendium of Wonderful Words: A Miscellany of Obscure Terms, Bizarre Phrases & Surprising Etymologies Silver Lining of pandemic Support the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Englebretson, Associate Professor in Linguistics at Rice University, about all things braille.  Sources: https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000061http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/ling327syllabus.pdfhttps://news2.rice.edu/2019/07/23/rice-study-seeks-to-improve-braille-literacy-2/Kleege, Georgina. 2006. "Visible braille/invisible blindness." Journal  of Visual Culture, 5 (2): 209-218....

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Valerie Fridland about her new book, Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English, how to pronounce Nevada, and all things language. Charles Boberg's article on 'foreign (a)'Words with no English equivalents Support the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Dr. Bob Kennedy is back! Carrie and Megan pick his brain about all things language in sports.  He shoots, he scores! Intro discussion: video Vox articleSupport the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Megan and Carrie talk with Rachel E. Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura, and the language we use to describe pregnancy, vaginas, cervixes, etc. Whale vocal fry: nprwaponytimesBackground on phonic lips Support the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Ilan Stavans about his new book, The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language. Support the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Megan and Carrie talk to Dr. Dennis Baron, Emeritus Professor of English at  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about his newest book You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech. What do moos mean? Support the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Geneva Smitherman/Dr. G about her book My Soul Look Back In Wonder, narrative essays about her race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. Quebec economic immigrants Support the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Example bonus episode from November 2022. We talk WOTY22! Full episode coming soon Support the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Megan and Carrie talk with Jonathan "radbwa faroush" Myers and Adrien  Guillory-Chatman, members of the first Wikitongues cohort, about Kouri-Vini, aka Louisiana Creole, a French Creole spoken mainly in Louisiana.    Collins' WOTY22 A discussion of Ukrainian to English transliteration Dictionary.com's new words Learn Kouri-Vini Support the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Carrie and Megan talk with Maureen Kosse, linguistics PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder, about her paper "Ted Cruz Cucks Again",  the origins and meaning of "cuck",  white supremacy, antisemitism, and the alt-right. Check out The Story of Woman podcast Carrie mentions in the intro The Authority GapMorality of AbortionSupport the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness,  about his new book Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness. Want to edit video or audio? Try Descript: https://www.descript.com?lmref=H1fP3g Support the showContact us: Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalf[email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

You asked for it and it finally happened: the You're Wrong About/Vocal Fries crossover event is here. Carrie and Megan talk with Sarah Marshall about bimbos, vocal fry, the word "like" and many other things. Want to edit video or audio? Try Descript: https://www.descript.com?lmref=H1fP3g Support the show

Megan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about the history and use of the word "bullsh*t". Support the show

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. John Rickford, emeritus professor at Stanford, about his memoir, Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language, growing up in Guyana, moving to the United States, and his love of linguistics and Black Talk. Fifth anniversary sign up Support the show

Megan and Carrie talk with Drs Andreea Calude and Laurie Bauer about their new textbook Mysteries of English Grammar: A Guide to Complexities of the English Language and their edited volume Questions about Language: What Everybody Should Know about Language in the 21st Century. This episode is sponsored by FindingFive, a tech non-profit. Promotional code for listeners of the Vocal Fries for a complimentary one-month Pro subscription: FF-US-FRIES (US server, https://www.findingfive.com...

Carrie and Megan talk with the Working Pentlatch Revitalization team (Mathew Andreatta, Jessie Recalma, Chief Michael Recalma, and Dr Su Urbanczyk) about their work on reawakening Pentlatch, a Coast Salish language on Vancouver Island. This episode is sponsored by FindingFive, a tech non-profit. Promotional code for listeners of the Vocal Fries for a complimentary one-month Pro subscription: FF-US-FRIES (US server, https://www.findingfive.com only)FF-EU-FRIES (EU server,...

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Hadas Kotek, a linguist at Apple, about two of her papers: Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice 1997? and Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences. See the two graphs Hadas had us look at here. This episode is sponsored by FindingFive, a tech non-profit. Promotional code for listeners of the Vocal Fries for a complimentary one-month Pro subscription: FF-US-FRIES (US server,...

Carrie and Megan talk with two of the editors of Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language, Eufemia Fantetti, Professor of English at Humber College, and Ayelet Tsabari, who teaches creative writing  at the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph and University of King’s College, about their new book, writing in English as a second language, Molisan, Hebrew, and Yemeni Arabic. Support the show

Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Noah Nelson, trustee of FindingFive. FindingFive is a tech nonprofit that enables academic researchers to create and run online behavioral research studies in the cloud!   This is a sponsored episode, where you learn all about how FindingFive works! You can get a complimentary one-month Pro subscription that comes with premium features and 100 free participants for the redeemed monthly cycle: FF-US-FRIES (US server, https://www.findingfive.com only)FF-EU-FRIES...

Renee and Natalia are back with a conversation about some of the books they love that fall into super niche genres. For example, Natalia has an entire bookshelf dedicated to books about bananas and Renee will never say no to a thriller with an unlikeable 20-something woman protagonist who works in a startup. Tune in to hear all the weird things they’re both into. Books Mentioned:  Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang Diamond Head by...

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessica Hernandez, a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest, about her new book Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod)